Billionaire erects $124 million gas terminal to challenge Kenya's import duopoly

Taifa Gas, backed by Tanzanian billionaire Rostam Aziz, is completing a $124 million LPG import terminal in Mombasa to break Kenya's two-player cooking gas duopoly. The 30,000-tonne facility (expandable to 45,000 tonnes) addresses a supply bottleneck as Kenyan demand for cooking gas surged 14.59% in H2 2025.

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